{"id":12972,"date":"2026-02-22T16:10:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12972"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:10:44","slug":"hit-songs-of-1976-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12972","title":{"rendered":"Hit Songs of 1976 \u2013 #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a version of a theme from a TV Show. &#8220;Theme from S.W.A.T.&#8221; by Rhythm Heritage isn&#8217;t the version used on the <em>S.W.A.T.<\/em> series. That was much shorter (under a minute) and written and performed by Barry De Vorzon. This song by Rhythm Heritage was at the top of both the <em>Billboard<\/em> and C<em>ash Box<\/em> chart for the week of Feb. 22 &#8211; 28, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Rhythm Heritage only existed for a few years.\u00a0 Playing guitar on this instrumental is Ray Parker, Jr. who would record the theme from\u00a0<em>Ghostbuster<\/em> in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>The series\u00a0<em>S.W.A.T.<\/em> ran from Feb. 1975 to April 1976. The series was resurrected in 2017 and ran until last year.<\/p>\n<p>In the video clip from the 70s series I noticed that the police are using M16 military rifles. They also are wearing baseball caps instead of helmets which are standard now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RfhDxcU_KY0?si=o-hdPlKKDGteuWkL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a version of a theme from a TV Show. &#8220;Theme from S.W.A.T.&#8221; by Rhythm Heritage isn&#8217;t the version used on the S.W.A.T. series. That was much shorter (under a minute) and written and performed by Barry De Vorzon. This song by Rhythm Heritage was at the top of both the Billboard and Cash &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/?p=12972\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Hit Songs of 1976 \u2013 #8&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[546,547],"class_list":["post-12972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-546","tag-sonsg"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12973,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972\/revisions\/12973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochistory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}